I didn’t know how much a news story could change my life. Until I read these.

Cover Story
Made you look.
We live in the golden
age of clickbait—the manipulative Web headline that tempts readers with
the promise of seeing something outrageous, inspirational or adorable.
Sites like
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Not another top-10 list.

Movie Reviews & Stories
AP Film Studies is not immune from the
urge to make year-end lists. But rather than churning out another
boring-ass top 10, I’m holding an alternate awards ceremony, one that
encompasses more
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2013 was a good year at the cinema.

Movie Reviews & Stories
We live in a time of tyranny. Our oppressor? Choice. You
think all those Netflix options are improving your quality of life?
Think again. That’s why our brains love lists. Not only are they easi
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Richard Speer’s picks for the year’s best visual art.

Visual Arts
When you look back over the year, it’s
kind of like that segment on the Academy Awards where they flash
pictures of all the movie people who died. That’s the way Portland
gallerygoers feel
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WW food writers pick their favorite dishes of 2013.

Food Reviews & Stories
Often the best thing is what surprises
you. On a cold day in October—in a drizzling, windswept food-cart
parking lot with a trash-can-style campfire and an immobile school bus
that serves as a
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Our 14 favorite ways to get drunk for New Year’s 2014.

Headout
The
rum-punch drunk, which feels a lot less like being punched than like
woozily waking up after being knocked out. You’ll be asking yourself:
Where have I been all my life?That hyper-jitter
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